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AI singer now occupies eleven spots on iTunes singles chart

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Re: AI singer now occupies eleven spots on iTunes singles chart

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Post by mistrial9 »

warkdarrior wrote: post #5
jmathai wrote: post #3

We've seen a steady shift in music over the past 2 decades from full length albums, to single hits, to artificially generated. Surely there's some gained and some lost. But coming from the era of buying an entire album, spending time reading the CD booklets and art, and listening to 10 songs which tell a larger story ---- what's being lost really hits home.

One can still buy artisan albums created by independent singers/bands. But they tend to get lost in the marketing/influencer noise and thus do not get worldwide success. As a result you have to search harder for them.

the main article is about marketing/influencer noise completely replacing the artists, enacted by companies close to the search process

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Post by afavour »

jmathai wrote: post #3

We've seen a steady shift in music over the past 2 decades from full length albums, to single hits, to artificially generated. Surely there's some gained and some lost. But coming from the era of buying an entire album, spending time reading the CD booklets and art, and listening to 10 songs which tell a larger story ---- what's being lost really hits home.

I really don't think we have. When I was growing up in the 90s it was the heyday of the pop single but there were still plenty of albums being produced and I think it's the same today.

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Post by BoingBoomTschak »

bobthepanda wrote: post #6
jmathai wrote: post #3

We've seen a steady shift in music over the past 2 decades from full length albums, to single hits, to artificially generated. Surely there's some gained and some lost. But coming from the era of buying an entire album, spending time reading the CD booklets and art, and listening to 10 songs which tell a larger story ---- what's being lost really hits home.

Artists have actually been moving back to the full album with goodies, even in mainstream pop with Beyoncé, Rosalia, RAYE, Charli XCX to name a few.

Does it really matter since pop albums were/are (almost?) always "collections of singles + fillers"?

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Post by LtWorf »

mjr00 wrote: post #9
HardwareLust wrote: post #8

I just checked Spotify, it has 368k followers and at least one song has over 1M streams.

This speaks more about how easy it is to buy botted vanity metrics on Spotify than anything. The most obvious way you can tell this is inorganic is how all of the "Discovered On" are artist-specific playlists: "Eddie Dalton music", "Best of Eddie Dalton", "Eddie Dalton Hits", etc. A real artist may have some artist-specific playlists but generally their Discovered On will be more general genre playlists, like "Pop Hi…

Wasn't there already some scandal with swedish criminals using this to launder money?

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Post by justonceokay »

leviathant wrote: post #4

I have no doubt that those numbers have been inflated by AI powered marketing tools, dead internet theory style.

Yes it should be easy to find people in one’s immediate social circle who are listening to these tracks if they are that popular. I’ll wait…

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Post by everdrive »

It's similar pattern that we've seen previously, but exaggerated by modern trends and modern technology: the most popular cultural items will often be meaningless and base, and if you want something substantial you need other ways to find meaningful content.
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